The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-12-22

had undergone several additions, the
demands of their trade making it
necessary to greatly increase it above
its original capcity. Seven enlargenents
followed in succession until the space
covered by the lloors was 5000
square feet. BY this time Cooper's Ware
house had become known all over the
country tributary to the Henderson
market, and SO rapidly did its business
grow that even this was no longer ad
equate to the demands of its ever in
creastng patronage.
And this is what made necessary
such building as we show in our cut
to-day. 1t is an ornament to the town,
and indeed would be to any town in
the State. The house covers Il space
I1ox2o+ feet, with a basement for
storage purposes 7ox2o4 feet. A
portion of it is two stories high above
the basement, handsome in architect
ural design and excellent in workman
ship. 1t has every modern improve
ment, is lighted with gas and elegant
ly fitted UP. Upon entering the front
you find nice suite Of offices, finished
in native woods, while a little further
on are rooms for farmers afording
every accommodation for their con-
venience and comfort. The sales room
is a splendid one in every respect.
The sky lights are numerous and SO
arranged as to show the tobacco to
best effect bringing out its fine qualities
to superior advantage, while the floor
is pronounced by competent judges
to be the finest in the South.
No warehouse in North Carolina has
higher reputation or enjoys better
patronage than Cooper's. Commence
ing as we have already said in small
way in 1873, its business has since
grown to the proud position that it
now occupies-a position that IS as
gratifying to its friends and patrons as
it is creditable to its proprietor. 1t
has steadily increased from the first,
until it has assumed really mammoth
proportions, and each year finds it
growing larger and larger. Wherever
tobacco is grown throughout this entire
section of North Carolina and Virginia
for a hundred miles distant, Coop
er's Warehouse is a household word
and its popularity is evidenced by the
splendid patronage it enjoys. From
Person, Caswell, Orange, Durham,
Wake, Granville, Vance, Franklin,
Nash, Warren, Halifax and Edgecombe
counties in North Carolina and Neck
lenburg, Brunswick and Halifax coun-
ties, in Virginia; as we'll as from some
| of the more remote counties of the two
States, and from South Carolina, to-
bacco comes to Cooper's Warehouse.
The unsurpassed accommodations and
the satisfactory prices at which all
grades of the leaf are sold there.
bring it.
Besides doing an immense business
in tobacco, both buying and selling
! Mr.. Cooper handles large quantities Of
guano, and has no doubt sold more
vehicles-carriages, buggies and wag.
ons-than any other dealer in thi:
part of the State. He is also 4 large
dealer in real estate and has given and
received more deeds perhaps than any
other man in Vance county. In adj
/ dition to all this he is a large farmer
also, having made on his farms alone II
barns of tobacco. Mr.. Cooper is a borr
business man and has tact not only
of succeeding at whatever he under
takes but Of infusing new life into al
around him. He is never idle or IN
active, but is ever on the alert IN push
ing his business or any enterprise TO
the good of Henderson. Mr.. COope
was born and raised on a farm, anc
followed that high and noble calling
for some years after he had reached
manhood. He started in life a poo
boy, and by we'll directed energy
pluck and perseverance, has made
himself what he is to-day, one of on
! NCdltItCSl, iiiOSt lillClIiSSbt SiiiI III Is III.
esteemed citizens. His career strongl,
exemplifies the fact, that energy ane
integrity, coupled with a strict adher
ence to honesty and good judgmen
are always productive of good results
and no man has cause to realize Thu
more fully than he.
In whatever pursuit Mr.. Cooper
keen foresight and sound judgmen
lead him, his course is marked b.
characteristic energy and enterprise
and throwing himself into the vorte:
of business with commendable yea
and fixed determination to not onl
succeed, but to excel, he allows n
"mole hill'' of apparent obstacles t
become " mountain" of insurmount
able difficulties in the way of his laud
able ambition-an ambition TO sue
coed in whatever he undertakes; an,
in all legitimate ways 10 make tn
most out of this life and its business
and how we'll he has measured up t
the standard Of such high and noble cn